In the dampened light of an overcast spring Saturday, I watched two figures stride past the bust of Nelson Mandela at the side of the Royal Festival Hall. They were the vanguard of the 'Defend London's NHS' protest which had gathered at the foot of the stairs just south of...

As a state-school graduate, I am used to having my alma mater and her affiliates criticised. They underachieve, they overachieve (due to teacher manipulation), they're broken, all the girls are pregnant at thirteen and no alumni will ever be prime minister. Things have reached such depths that Nick Clegg is...

Today the twitter account @ididnotreport1 has been posting anonymous tweets from people who have been the victims of sexual assault but not reported it to the police. These fragments of stories speak of fear, of a belief - or experience - that victims won't be listen to, and guilt.

On Monday, protesters gathered outside Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin. Similar demonstrations happened at over 30 locations across the world. Those who gathered weren't angry about privacy settings, or about the introduction of the timeline, but because photographs of users breastfeeding had been removed from the site.

I know you're both having a bad day, what with people talking about how you badmouthed a fellow world leader when you thought your microphones were off and all, but I wanted to tell you that last week, on a train, I spoke to my...

When I was six years old, my parents were call into the headmaster's office. The results of my year two SATs were in and I had performed dismally. It was likely, they were told, that I would struggle academically.